28/07/2021
Releasing an album that he describes as ‘…original New Zealand jazz and contemporary music’, while taking its diverse musical cues from the famed likes of Django Reinhardt, Carlos Santana and T-Bone Walker, Auckland ...
15/06/2021
With the April release of ‘Dreamer’ Anna Hawkins has delivered four richly-voiced LPs since 2013. ‘Be it pop, show musical theatre, classical opera, folk, Celtic, her voice enfolds and enhances all musical material ...
11/06/2021
Explaining the title of her newly-released debut solo album, Dianne Swann says it relates to the human condition; in a nutshell that sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, that we cannot always feel happy, and we all find ...
28/05/2021
Songwriter and avowed Gemini Michele Ducray is these days Christchurch-based, but has a family history of tasting life in other, more challenging parts of the world. That perhaps helps explains the way that her level-headed ...
06/11/2020
You can tell Darren Watson enjoys a tongue-in-cheek joke just by the fact that he calls his own label Lamington Records, with a picture of whipped cream and cherry special as its logo. There are further clues in the title ...
26/06/2016
I have written (or arranged!) something extremely different from our recent rock and funk escapades for this first issue of the new year. It is actually a piano piece composed by the French composer, Claude Debussy (1862-1918) ...
26/06/2016
This issue is the second part of the bass arrangement I have scored of Claude Debussy's Claire de Lune. What happens after this section will require you to find three or four bass-playing mates, as the piece becomes impossible ...
26/06/2016
In the last NZM issue, we looked at some iconic Afro-American funk bass lines that used a 'less is more' approach. We'll continue the theme here by looking at two significant bass tracks (one from the 1960s and one from the ...
26/06/2016
As promised in the last issue, we are going to look at some of the aspects of James Jamerson's bass playing that made him an individualist who has influenced bass players since the early days of the Tamla Motown record ...
26/06/2016
Many readers of the Deep Thinking column will be familiar with British trio Cream, one of the bands of the late 1960s that moved from blues-based improvisation to experimental progressive rock, and influenced later bands ...
